"Stargazy pie Stargazy pie (sometimes called starrey gazey pie, stargazey pie and other variants) is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards (or sardines), along with eggs and potatoes, covered with a pastry crust. Although there are a few variations with different fish being used, the unique feature of stargazy pie is fish heads (and sometimes tails) protruding through the crust, so that they appear to be gazing skyward. The dish is traditionally held to have originated from the village of Mousehole in Cornwall and is traditionally eaten during the festival of Tom Bawcock's Eve to celebrate his heroic catch"
"Tom Bawcock's Eve Tom Bawcock's Eve is an annual festival, held on 23 December, in Mousehole, Cornwall, England. The festival is held in celebration and memorial of the efforts of legendary Mousehole resident Tom Bawcock to lift a famine from the village by going out to fish in a severe storm. During this festival Stargazy pie (a mixed fish, egg and potato pie with protruding fish heads) is eaten and depending on the year of celebration a lantern procession takes place. There are several theories of the origins of this festival, but the first recorded description was made by Robert"
"during a very stormy winter. According to the modern festival, which is combined with the Mousehole village illuminations, the entire catch was baked into a huge stargazy pie, encompassing seven types of fish and saving the village from starvation. The story of Bawcock was popularised by Antonia Barber's children's book ""The Mousehole Cat"", which featured the stargazy pie. In 2007 contestant Mark Hix won the BBC's ""Great British Menu"" with a variant of the dish. Stargazy pie is a pastry-based fish pie which, by tradition, is filled with whole pilchards. Critically, the pilchards must retain their heads, which then poke"
"an important element of the Cornish diet, but international commercial fishing was also well established by the 16th century, and tons of pilchards were exported from Cornwall to France, Italy and Spain every year. Stargazy pie is an occasional festive Cornish dish with the heads of fish standing on their tails, originally pilchards, piercing a pastry crust. The saffron bun, also known as the tea treat bun, is a sweet bread with its origins in Cornwall. With its comparatively small, rural population, major contribution by the Cornish to national sport in the United Kingdom has been limited. There are no"
"pie was invented in 1972 in Jevington in East Sussex. Maria Ann Smith from Sussex emigrated to Australia and created the Granny Smith apple. Horticulturist Richard Cox lived in Colnbrook, where he bred his Cox's Orange Pippin, a popular apple. Elizabeth David, a cookery writer who revolutionised the nations's home cooking in the 1950s, came from Sussex. The British Broadcasting Corporation operate ""South Today"" (BBC South) out of Havelock Road, Southampton and ""South East Today"" (BBC South East) in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. ""ITV News Meridian"" (ITV Meridian) which has sub-regions for the South and South East based in Whiteley, near"
"for the ""Daily Sketch"", interviewing ""the last generation to have had countryside lives sharing something in common with the Tudors."" The book strikes some readers as principally a history, but it consists mainly of recipes. Some of these such as stargazey pie are old-fashioned, but all are practical recipes that can be cooked. Dorothy Hartley's mother was from Froncysylltau, near Llangollen in North Wales, where the family owned quarries and property. In 1933 Hartley moved to a house in Froncysylltau, where she lived for the rest of her life. It was there that she began work on the book for"
"band member Daniel Tashian remembered from his childhood. The 2004 film ""Ladies in Lavender"", starring Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl, Natascha McElhone and Miriam Margolyes, includes a scene where stargazy pie is prepared and served. Stargazy pie Stargazy pie (sometimes called starrey gazey pie, stargazey pie and other variants) is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards (or sardines), along with eggs and potatoes, covered with a pastry crust. Although there are a few variations with different fish being used, the unique feature of stargazy pie is fish heads (and sometimes tails) protruding through the crust, so"
"Devizes pie Devizes Pie is a dish closely associated with the town of Devizes, Wiltshire, England. It is a pie which consists of offal within a huff paste casing. It was thought to originate from the 15th century, but fell out of fashion several times. It was first rediscovered in the 1950s and 60s, and again in 2006. Some modern recipes have replaced the majority of the offal with other proteins. Probably created in the 15th century, the Devizes Pie consists of offal, such as calf head, cooked in a case of hard huff paste. It is associated with the"
"pie is a traditional dish from South West England, with early records showing it was commonly eaten in Cornwall, Devon and Gloucestershire. Although the name suggests it should contain squab (young domestic pigeon), it in fact contains mutton and apples. The pie has become popular around the world, though outside South West England, it generally does contain pigeon. In recent times Ginsters bakery has become a large-scale producer of meat pies. The wet climate and relatively poor soil of Cornwall make it unsuitable for growing many arable crops. However, it is ideal for growing the rich grass required for dairying,"
"series, including ""Die Another Day"", the Harry Potter films and the BBC TV series ""Butterflies"". The film ""Hot Fuzz"" was set in Gloucestershire where Simon Pegg, who co-wrote and starred in the film, grew up. ""A Girl's Best Friend"", the pilot for the proposed ""Doctor Who"" spin-off ""K-9 and Company"", was filmed in Gloucestershire. The setting is the fictional town of Moreton Harwood. The fictional town of Leadworth in ""Doctor Who"" is in Gloucestershire. It is the home of companions Amy Pond, Rory Williams and River Song in their childhoods and young adulthoods. A fictional Brimpsfield was the village, home"
"the base. Stilton cheese originated near Melton Mowbray, and is still made in the town today. Stilton cheese takes its name from the village of Stilton in Huntingdonshire, where it was marketed to travellers on the Great North Road, though no Stilton was ever made there. Melton Mowbray pork pies are made with a specific ""hand-raising"" process and recipe. On 4 April 2008 the European Union awarded the Melton Mowbray pork pie Protected Geographical Indication status, following a long-standing application made by the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association. As a result of this ruling pies made only within a designated"
"name. (Ms Barber lists Star-Gazy Pie as a staple of Mousehole diet ""before"" Tom's heroic fishing expedition, however, whereas according to tradition it dates from his return and legendary catch.) There is an ongoing folk music tradition associated with Tom Bawcock's Eve. The words were written by Robert Morton Nance in 1927, to a traditional local tune called the 'Wedding March'. It is believed that Nance first observed the festivities around the start of the 20th century. His version runs as follows: The dialect used in the words of the song translate as follows:- The song appears on four of"
"the idea to celebrate the legend as part of the Mousehole Christmas celebrations, however there is a brief record by Morton Nance, an author on the Cornish language, in 1927 in the magazine ""Old Cornwall"". His description was regarding the festivities prior to 1900, though he doubted the reality of Tom Bawcock, suggesting it was in fact ""Beau Coc"". He also had a theory that the origins of a festival dated back to pre-Christian times, though it is unclear at what time the stargazy pie became part of the festivities. Morton Nance wrote the (now) traditional song sung on Tom"
"worldwide teams homed in on the act coming from Japan, Canada, Finland and Germany. The winners of the Custard Pie Trophy were usually women. This tradition came to an end in 1982 at Coxheath when Councillor Fitzgerald moved to Ditton taking the championships with him, and it died out in 1988 after the trophy was lost and never found. However, the competition was revived on 6 June 2007, and it has been held annually in Coxheath ever since. Coxheath Coxheath is a village and civil parish within the Borough of Maidstone, Kent, England. The parish is approximately south of Maidstone."
"Polegate Polegate is a town and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England, United Kingdom. It is located five miles (8 km) north of the seaside resort of Eastbourne and is part of the greater area of that town. Although once a railway settlement, its importance as such has now waned by route closures. The civil parish of Polegate had a population of 8,586 on the 2011 census, 41.2% aged 65 and over. Until the coming of the railways in the 1840s, Polegate was a small settlement within the parish of Hailsham. The Roman road from Pevensey"
"pie will negate these qualities, making the pie pastry soft. A ""Clark's Tash"" is the nickname given to burning the upper lip with the hot filling. Clark's Pies Clark's Pies, also colloquially nicknamed ""Clarkies"" or ""Clarksies,"" are well-known meat pies that originated in Cardiff, and can now be found in Bristol and the South of Wales. A printed paper bag from the 1930s states that the business was established in 1909. A shop opened on Llanmaes Street in Roath, Cardiff in 1913. Developed by Mary Clark, a second shop opened on Cowbridge Road East in nearby Canton in the 1930s."
"Squab pie Squab pie is a traditional dish from South West England, with early records showing it was associated with Cornwall, Devon and Gloucestershire. Although the name suggests it contains squab (young domestic pigeon), in fact it contains mutton and apples. The pie was eaten around the world in the 1900s, though outside South West England it generally did contain pigeon. It is no longer a popular dish, with less than 3% of British teenagers surveyed having eaten it. Although it is not known exactly where squab pie was first made, it is clear that it was somewhere in South"
"particularly known for puddings: such was the reputation of Sussex that it was said that ""to venture into the county was to risk being turned into a pudding yourself"". In one version of the Sussex folk tale, the knucker dragon at Lyminster was slayed after being fed a poisoned Sussex pudding. Sussex is also known for its cakes and biscuits known as Sussex Plum Heavies and Sussex Lardy Johns, while banoffee pie was first created in 1972 in Jevington. The county has vineyards and has produced beer for centuries. It includes the 18th century beer brewers, Harveys of Lewes as"
"West England. There are references to it originating in Gloucestershire, Devon and Cornwall. Although it appears that squab pie did originally contain pigeons, mutton and apples have been used as a substitute since at least 1737 using a recipe that has remained in cookbooks for years afterwards. This misnaming has meant that the pie is considered to be a surprise. Squab is described as tender with a mild berry flavour, and so it is possible that the combination of mutton and apples created a similar flavour. There is also a theory that the name squab pie is short for ""squabble"
"Pie Throwing Championship, after Councillor Mike Fitzgerald, who founded the championships, moved to Ditton from Coxheath, bringing the championships with him. Although the competition died out in 1988, it was revived at Coxheath in 2007, and it has been held there annually since then. Ditton, Kent Ditton is a large village and civil parish in the Tonbridge and Malling district of Kent, England. The village is WNW of Maidstone and east of West Malling. The parish, which is long and narrow, straddles the A20 (the old Dover to London road), with farmland to the south and industry to the north."
"Melton Mowbray Melton Mowbray () is a town in Leicestershire, England, northeast of Leicester, and southeast of Nottingham. The town is on the River Eye and the River Wreake and has a population of 25,554. The town is best known for its culinary speciality, the Melton Mowbray pork pie, and it is one of the six homes of Stilton cheese. Melton Mowbray is promoted as the ""Rural Capital of Food"". The name comes from the early English word Medeltone – meaning ""Middletown surrounded by small hamlets"" (and therefore has the same origin as Milton and Middleton). Mowbray is a Norman"
"Pantysgawn Pantysgawn, also known as Pant-Ysgawn, is a Welsh cheese made from goat's milk. It was the first cheese produced by Pam and Tony Craske at Pant-Ys-Gawn Farm, Wales, and the success of it resulted in the couple founding the Abergavenny Fine Foods Company. It is now produced in Blaenavon by the Craske family from locally produced goat's curd from Soil Association certified farms. It has been served at NATO receptions, at St. David's Day celebrations at 10 Downing Street and to Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Cardiff in 2015. Pantysgawn is named due to the origins of"
"Bawcock. This festival is the inspiration behind the book ""The Mousehole Cat"" by Antonia Barber and the associated television productions. This festival is also the origin of 'Star Gazey Pie', a mixed fish, egg and potato pie with fish heads protruding through the pastry. Mousehole also holds a small maritime festival every two years called 'Sea, Salt and Sail'. Parts of the 1995 feature film ""Blue Juice"" were filmed in the village. The local community radio station is Coast FM (formerly Penwith Radio), which broadcasts on 96.5 and 97.2 FM. Mousehole was part of the ancient parish of Paul, and"
"for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon. Even today, road signs at the county boundary describe Warwickshire as ""Shakespeare's County"". The county has also produced other famous figures such as Aleister Crowley (from Royal Leamington Spa), George Eliot (from Nuneaton), Rupert Brooke (from Rugby), and Michael Drayton (from Hartshill). The poet Philip Larkin lived in Warwick (born in nearby Coventry), and Elizabeth Gaskell went to school in Barford and Stratford. Folk musician Nick Drake, who record for Island records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, lived and died in Tanworth-in-Arden. Warwickshire Warwickshire (; postal abbreviation Warks.) is"
"and Dances from Cornwall"" and in Peter Kennedy's 1997 ""Folksongs of Britain and Ireland"". It has been suggested that the song is a Cornish version of the song ""Sweet Nightingale"". In her 2011 book ""Celtic Myth and Religion"", Paice MecLeod claims that there are no surviving traditional Cornish songs and that the song was borrowed from England and sung in Cornish. A version appears, however, on the 1975 Sentinel Records album ""Starry-Gazey Pie"", by Cornish folk singer Brenda Wootton, with accompaniment by Robert Bartlett. The sleeve notes claim that the song is ""the only living remnant"" of the Cornish language"
"British Menu"" was won by Mark Hix, head chef at The Ivy in London, with a variation on stargazy pie, which combined rabbit and crayfish for the filling, poking some crayfish through the pie crust. Hix had previously created a mutton and crayfish for a festival aimed at increasing the use of the meat, and it was served at his London restaurants for a time. American rock band The Silver Seas (under their previous name The Bees U.S.) released an album called ""Starry Gazey Pie"" in 2004; the album and title track referred to a recipe in a cookbook which"
"the fish was put into a big pie, and the pie called ""Stargazy pie"". The Merry Maidens stone circle at St Buryan: the local myth about the creation of the stones suggests that nineteen maidens were turned into stone as punishment for dancing on a Sunday. (""Dans Maen"" translates as Stone Dance.) The pipers, two megaliths some distance north-east of the circle, are said to be the petrified remains of the musicians who played for the dancers. A more detailed story explains why the Pipers are so far from the Maidens - apparently the two pipers heard the church clock"
"Square Pie Square Pie is a British food retail chain based in Hackney, east London, which specialises in handmade pies. It was founded in 2001 by Martin Dewey, with the first outlet, ""The Square Pie Company"", being opened in Spitalfields Market in November of that year. After the success of this shop, and after expanding sales by supplying London venues such as The Social and The Lock Tavern and running a stall at Glastonbury, Square Pie opened a concession in Selfridges food hall in London in 2003. A third outlet was opened at Canary Wharf in June 2004 to be"
"The fictional ""Doctor Who"" character Melanie Jane Bush lived at 36 Down View before joining him (""Business Unusual"")—this is a fictitious address, but perfectly possible as both the North and South Downs can be seen from Pease Pottage. Pease Pottage Pease Pottage is a small village in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the southern edge of the Crawley built up area, in the civil parish of Slaugham. Pease Pottage is familiar to many drivers for its motorway service station, named after the village, which also serves as a local shop (Marks and Spencer Simply"
"Clark's Pies Clark's Pies, also colloquially nicknamed ""Clarkies"" or ""Clarksies,"" are well-known meat pies that originated in Cardiff, and can now be found in Bristol and the South of Wales. A printed paper bag from the 1930s states that the business was established in 1909. A shop opened on Llanmaes Street in Roath, Cardiff in 1913. Developed by Mary Clark, a second shop opened on Cowbridge Road East in nearby Canton in the 1930s. During World War II the first shop was closed due to wartime meat rationing. Dennis Dutch, Mary Clark's grandson, opened the third pie shop and bakery"
"rare orchids. Philip's Street Atlas Leicestershire and Rutland (page 58) Asfordby Hill Asfordby Hill is a hamlet on the A6006 road, in the parish of Asfordby , in the Melton District, in the English county of Leicestershire. Asfordby Hill has a primary school which was built in 1909. An excellent garden centre with an alpine themed restaurant and farm shop. At the farm shop you can buy a proper Melton Mowbray pork pie as well as a variety of other pies, including a penguin pie! Asfordby Hill Steel Works remains open and is owned by St.Gobain. It is a little"
"some areas of Cornwall. A part-savoury, part-sweet pasty (similar to the Bedfordshire clanger) was eaten by miners in the 19th century, in the copper mines on Parys Mountain, Anglesey. The technician who did the research and discovered the recipe claimed that the recipe was probably taken to Anglesey by Cornish miners travelling to the area looking for work. No two-course pasties are commercially produced in Cornwall today, but are usually the product of amateur cooks. They are, however, commercially available in the British supermarket chain Morrisons (under the name 'Tin Miner Pasty'). Other traditional fillings have included a wide variety"
"Claygate Claygate is a suburban village in Surrey, England, 13 miles south-west of central London. It is the only civil parish in the borough of Elmbridge. Claygate was once in the main manor of Thames Ditton, but is now administered from Esher. It is primarily residential and has a small number of offices, outlying farms and two small shopping areas, the Old Village and the Parade, with hair and beauty shops, a supermarket, six pubs and a number of restaurants. Claygate may have its name from the clay pits in the village that provided bricks for a large surrounding area"